Thank you for the question about Moses, “Why did God send Moses to Egypt to free Israel?”
The Scriptures does not state the exact reason why God chose Moses to free the Israelites from Egypt.
For one’s consideration, here are some thoughts as to the reason why God chose Moses to free the Israelites:
A. God chose Moses because he was raised as an Egyptian and familiar with the royal court. He would know the Egyptian protocols and their words.
Exodus 2 says this, “8 “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses,[b] saying, “I drew him out of the water” (NIV). See also Heb. 11:24–25.
B. God chose Moses because he was familiar with the terrain of Midian and Mount Sinai. He would be able to led the Israelites into Midian.
Exodus 2 says this, “15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.“ (NIV).
C. God chose Moses because he was educated and being able to write down the Laws of God. He was trained to lead the Egyptian people.
Acts 7 says this, “22 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action” (NIV).
D. God chose Moses because the people respected him as there were rumors that he was of a Jewish descent and a prince in Egypt.
Acts 7 says this, “23 “When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. 24 He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. 25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not” (NIV).
Even though he was away for 40 years, the story of Moses likely circulated among the people. When they heard that Moses stood in Pharaoh’s court and performed the signs and plagues, they admired him.
God could have chosen anyone to fulfill his will. When the 400 years of enslavement was near for the Jewish people, God prepared a man to do his will. That man had to be shaped and molded whereby God could use him to fulfill his work.
SUMMARY: Moses’s forty years in the Royal Palace prepared him to be God’s representative in Pharaoh’s Court and Moses’ forty years in the desert prepared him to lead the Israelites in and through the Wilderness.
-Kingston